Mobile WebDriver Selendroid

Mobile WebDriver
Selendroid

Michael Palotas & Dominik Dary
Productivity & Test Engineering Europe
2014-01-17 Nokia Here Unconference

AGENDA
1.  Facts about eBay
2.  Selenium
3.  Mobile Automation Requirements
4.  Selendroid
5.  Borderless Test Automation

Mobile WebDriver Selendroid

2

EBAY INC.

MICHAEL PALOTAS - EBAY INTERNATIONAL

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EBAY INC. FACTS
• Founded in 1995
• Based in San Jose, California
• ~30000 Employees worldwide


5

MOBILE FACTS
Mobile Facts

Mobile Fun Facts

162,000,000 downloads
of eBay Inc’s apps

Every 15 seconds, a pair of ladies shoes is purchased on
eBay Mobile in the UK.

Mobile transaction volume
2012: 13 billion USD – overall increase of 120 % from 2011!
2013: expectation is to transact 20 billion USD

4.2 million items
are listed with using mobile apps every week

500 USD
mobile transaction volume every second

Every week, more than 11,000 cars and 690,000 car parts
are sold through eBay’s mobile apps.

Source: http://www.ebayinc.com/system/download_links/eBay_MobileMomentum_Facts_052913_0.pdf?download=1


6

WHO ARE WE?

Michael Palotas
Head of Productivity & Test Engineering

Dominik Dary
Software Engineer

SELENIUM FOR MOBILE

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DISCLAIMER
• Test Automation is Software Development
• End-to-End Tests are slow
• Perfect vs. Good Enough – A Context where
Time to Market Matters


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WHAT IS SELENIUM?

Selenium automates browsers
that’s it


10

WHAT DO WE DO WITH SELENIUM?
End to End functional test automation
Manual
Tests

Selenium space

E2E
Test
s
Integration Tests

Unit Tests


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SELENIUM
JSON WIRE
PROTOCOL

Client

Server
Ruby
Python

Java
C#

i.e. Firefox driver


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CLIENT
• Is seen as „Selenium“ by the users
• Is called by the test framework or the CI server
• Generates HTTP requests which are received by the
server
• Supported languages:
Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP, JS


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SERVER
• Receives HTTP requests
• Start and teardown of browser
• Translates requests into browser specific commands
• Communicates back to the client


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SCALING USING SELENIUM GRID

Client

Client

CI

server

GRID Hub

server

server


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TECHNICAL HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF
THE TEST INFRASTRUCTURE
Selenium Webdriver / Grid

Automated Test
Development
via IDE

QE
Engineer

Tests can be
started on Grid

eBay web
front end

Version Control System

Clone
Source Files

Start the Test Suite
via Brower

End-to-End
Tests

View the Test
Session and the
Result in the
Browser

+

Build via
Maven
Test type?

Agile
Team

Grid Hub

API Call

eBay API

Run test
via TestNG

Continuous Integration
System (Jenkins)
DB validation

Our virtualized test infrastructure hosted on VMware vSphere

Database

Testing Environment


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MOBILE AUTOMATION REQUIREMENTS
• Use the same approach and infrastructure as web
• Use the Load Balancer / Resource Management
Features of Selenium Grid
• Manage multiple applications / versions / languages
• No modification of mobile app
• Mobile App Runtime Inspection Support
• No jailbreak / rooting of devices

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ANOTHER AUTOMATION TOOL?

Android

iOS

•  Calabashandroid
•  Robotium
•  Appium
•  UiAutomator
•  Espresso

•  Calabash-ios
•  Frank
•  UIAutomation
•  Appium
•  KeepItFunctional

Selendroid & ios-driver


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SELENDROID
Open sourced on github:
– https://github.com/selendroid
Documentation:
• https://selendroid.io
Committers:
– eBay, Salesforce and Facebook
Getting help
– IRC : #selendroid on freenode


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SELENDROID FEATURES

• The only mobile WebDriver that supports native &
hybrid apps and testing the mobile web on Android
versions (API 10 to 19)
• Full compatibility with the JSON Wire Protocol.
• The app under test must not be modified
• Interacts simultaneously with multiple Android devices
• Supports hot plugging of hardware devices
• Selenium Grid Support for scaling
• Advanced Gestures are supported
• Built in Inspector to simplify test case development

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CLIENT / SERVER ARCHITECTURE

MOBILE
BROWSER
CLIENT

JSON Wire Protocol

SERVER

selendroid
ios-driver

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TESTING NATIVE APPS
• Elements are found by locators
• Found element are used for different
interactions
• Example


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NATIVE DEMO
http://youtu.be/074BnGV0mS0


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TESTING HYBRID APPS
• Built in support for testing WebViews
with WebDriver
• Example:


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HYBRID DEMO
http://youtu.be/FGsKI6esKpw


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TESTING MOBILE WEB
• Built in support for testing Mobile Web
with AndroidDriver-App
• Official replacement of Selenium’s
AndroidDriver
• Example:


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MOBLE WEB DEMO
http://goo.gl/41uvAx


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SELENDROID ARCHITECTURE

WebDriver
Client

HTTP

HTTP & WebDriver
JSON wire protocol

Selendroid
Standalone
Driver

Selendroid-standalone

Android SDK

USB


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SELENDROID ARCHITECTURE


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TEST: DEVICE VS. EMULATOR

• Hardware devices and Emulators can be used
• Hardware devices are much faster
• Android devices will be identified automatically
• Hot plugging of hardware devices is supported


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SELENDROID INSPECTOR
• View hierarchy
• View UI element properties
• UI screenshot with view locator
• Record the click actions
• Display the html of a web view
• XPath helper


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SELENDROID INSPECTOR IN ACTION

http://youtu.be/JKZeF3eHljo

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BORDERLESS TEST AUTOMATION
• Our business is borderless à test automation needs
to be as well
• Use the same approach and infrastructure for web
and mobile


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SAME API FOR WEB AND MOBILE
A regular Web Test Case

An iPhone app test

An Android app test


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CROSS PLATFORM DEMO
Uses an iOS app, web page and an Android app in one scenario.


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WE ARE LOOKING
FOR
CONTRIBUTORS


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Thank You!
Questions or Comments?

Michael Palotas
Email: mpalotas@ebay.com

Dominik Dary

Fork us at Github:

Email: ddary@ebay.com
Twitter: @dominikdary

- http://selendroid.io
- http://github.com/ios-driver


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